Show SHAFFER DEALS A BLOW AT T PEACE ACE NEGOTIATIONS Says Efforts to 10 Bring About Settlement Arc Are ArcS Roli S Authorized by the Strikers c S General Feeling Heer That the Wi wm 11 Be Sides Claim Victory ry i burC Aug SI Reported peace negotiations for tile the settlement of the strike through the mediation of or disinterested disinterested disinterested parties officiate and of ot the Ute National Civic Federation re received calved a Jolt when President Theo Thee J Shaffer of the th Amalgamated Asso As ocia ia lion Uon of lion Iron Steel and lid Tin Till Workers to tonight night Might declared absolutely that tut he had han hanDO no DO official knowledge of such proceed proceedings ings and ad that If suck such a move mOge bd bad been started it did not DOt have bage he the official o sane tion tIe of the Nevertheless the subject t will not down do and sad tonight It k is S raN tile the conciliatory JQ committee o othe ot of the Ctrl Uon tion already aI Y prominent in hi the Ute mane is fully tully prepared to carr carron carry carryon on negotiations anu ana will w it if necessary endeavor to secure the good fOOd offices Ices o of Archbishop Ireland Bishop Potter Daniel Henna Banna Seth Low 10 of their organization to give such uc h I prominence to the committee com that the proposal will be received by the Steel corporation In the meantime both sides dell to the controversy make claims claim of a victory victor The steel people point to the gains pm they have made all along the be Use line in the way Wit of 0 securing men and starting plants while the Amalgamated officials o say I that IbM instead of oh losing ground the asso elation te J gaining every day and d that while the combine has bas succeeded in starting a few plants they are not turning out merchantable material and andare andare are R losing money and breaking machinery and aDd in the end will wUl have to ask their old men mien to collie c to the res rescue rescue rescue cue Claims Are The steel people ridicule the claims of the association and point to the failure to induce the Sooth Chicago Chiea o and Duquesne men to go oa strike as an evidence that the strength thet of 1 the tile Amal Ama Amalgamated association has bu departed The officiate say aay the die only plants at U which they expect d ae are at Star and the Lindsay and aDd but they expect to overcome all al troubles there and aRd have baw the mills mil lull Bill Billat at an early e date The surprise e of tile the day y was wea the Painter plant pIRt ant with six mills the anie mili mm that tt were running when the strike begin Hot a striker aUthor be found foed nose pun nini un t b bid mitts id iI hill fAra H said Superintend Superintendent I ent et JatH Harper Week before last we be began begab gab gan with two mills mUla and we kept run sing Ring all that week on day turn ture Last week we added ded two more mills mUm also al o okee keeping kee them theta running on day turns turn This morning moraine we two more mills making six Mx in all About M It per cent of the me rne mev now DOW working in ID the plant plan t tare are old men iren quite a lot of ot them strikers I era ers ersA eraA A report from Wheeling today is that bat batI the manager of the Aetna Standard I sheet plate mill of the American Sheet Steel company has hw received orders orden from I the general officers to dismantle sheet mill No 2 I and ship p the machinery macl nery to toI Pa The work of dis dismantling dIsmantling I mantling will be commenced at once The strikers at are Jubilant I tonight over Oger the official newer coming to them from Irondale These The e M I say sa 55 that all of the Ute men who have been I working in the mill except Ira and Harry Householder Hou refused to go beck bark beckI backI I to work and were reinstated in the Amalgamated lodge These two men with the addition of James and aDd Harry Hindman constituted the entire work working workIng ing force of the tile mill today Those four men make of on o one crew re requiring quiring eight men meD to man a tin mill millo Oae Ov o mill was working today 1 ith th this partial crew cr w the remainder of ot the plant being idle Mayors Peculiar Act Mayor Black of McKeesport port today fined John Sheridan a corkman in inthe inthe the Dowses Dewee Wood mill 2 23 and costs coats and Sheridan will have to serve lene thirty days in it the work house in default of or bail ball Sheridan has h been spotted for tor some sense time by the strikers because he said aid the strike would not succeed and that he be wanted to return to work He was wu drinking drinkin hard bard Saturday night and nd was locked up Today at the hearing no information appeared against him but Mayor Black fined him because he heard he lie had called calle him names He then refused a bond boDd for tor the fine an and i refused to let reporters inspect the thed docket d ket or transcript of the case unless s they would guarantee the fine and costs When asked his ble reasons for such sueh treatment of a 8 prisoner he said I Just sent him up for his health Superintendent D U M K of the Demmler tin plate mills said tonight the mill would be started this week wit with i ithe the old men Ten city police and strUt i era enl are guarding the plant tonight The officials officiate of ot the various anous plant that have hae been started during the pa paa I Itei I week He tei in Pittsburg say they thy have marl mad gain in all of them te More O men Ua ha j jc I c nee to work and the t output t is j in every case increased S The Painter plant of the hoop com corn combine comI biDe bine started two additional mills toda today j jand I and the officials sa say that before the tho en enI 1 of the week these mills w will 11 r tC he e double turn u The Star n are being beins I operated e by non no nonUniOn uni m tin workers rs an and 1 I two to double mills are tinning out satis saW I IC tat lory bU bL C k sheets S i Manager Arthur Piper claims tha that the mills will be operated three turns before the end of the Ute week Th Lind mills mill in ID Allegheny nv I have bave two mills running and aDd it Is ex exI exported I ported pec ted they will be put on double turn late in the week The Clark lark hoop houp mills in Lawrenceville are operated d In full for or a single le turn but hut th the say aay every enry one cne of the she ate mills will be beon bEon beon on double turn before the week ends end I Are Ars Operating Opera g Mills MUla Officials of the upper and lower union mills of the Carnegie CarM works work today I claimed that there was no difficulty in I their mills They denied that tha toe the refusal of some of then their men to re return return return turn to work had bad affected deded the plants plant In i any way wa To all outward appearances th tha lower mills were running as usual I today though the company has issued at let kt injunctions against entrance to toI the mills miUs or the offices by any anyone one no nt I there M 5 t Amalgamated headquarters bea lo I I there was Willi little of interest transpiring The mail malt for the officials was WR heavY hear ar r Secretary received r a number numbs of cheeks checks representing contri contributions buttons from Amalgamated lodges ds l n independent Districts for tor the 1 I I Trustee John Pierce and aDd Vice Vl e ei Prom I i dent Gibs Gibson sn n of the association seedS mad a 1 tour of the plants plan supposed to be op ep operating crating and reported ported r that there was w no truth in the report that so IO mOth Ii was being ace accomplished laed by the plants plaat The pickets about the Star mills nulls claim to have secured cured st nineteen desertions all aU told from the plant since teen roes T were werI I taken there It was also aI o claimed that of the total number 1 in ha the mill nearly a fifth are art made up of managers and auf foremen of ot other plants Regard Regarding ng tin the th Painter plant it was said saW that the strikers were keeping away from th the mills entirely eD relY and paM paI 1 no attention to the reports of f the new newmen newmen men that have haw been severed secured Many 87 of the tha strikers h have ive secured work die e where U HAU Denied Admission to Cotton at 52 Columbus Mla S C Co CColumbus CColumbus Columbus S O C Co Aug 26 Five hun bun hundred bundred dred operatives operative at the Gran Granby by Richland and Capital City Cotton mills mUla who refused to make up lip the time tbD that will be lost on OD Labor day by work working working ing inn six aix hours overtime last la t Saturday were denied admission to the mUM mills this tbS morning and were ware notified of their then ras for a v week eek The be operatives fell fellIn fellIn fellin In line and paraded through the tile vii vil village lap lag with much cheering Textile union No m is meeting to tonight tonight night to take action and Dd is receiving hundreds of new nw members Since tt the e strength of the unto union has bas been beeD di divulged divulged divulged President Smith Whaley saW said today We don dont t propose to have bave any 7 unionism in our business The mills in South Carolina have agreed to em employ employ employ ploy no union labor whatsoever I IwU wll wU close do down n every mm before bet I X will employ a union man maD All AU of my oper opera operatives tires a will wUI be required to sign n an agreement that they will not to toa toa a union The union meeting tonight took teak no aggressive action beyond re the pledges of its members not to forsake the organization The members say ay aythey they will wUl strike rather than sign a pledge to renounce unionism The mill millo officiate o have bave thirty police guarding cuan the mills mille tonight y POR Adopted Ad A fry by Texas em of Austin Tex Aug 26 The house hoIdE ut c representatives s today adopted fy y a vote of ot 55 to 2 after a lengthy len dis the f lowing resolution in ia introduced by Mr McFall Be it r resold J U by the house houtte of or rep representatives of f the legislature of the state of Texa That trusts and mo me monopolies MOnopolies are art i J to the spirit and genius of a fr fry people destructive of individual liber y and subversive of ot the principles prin s f a republican form at o government that hat we recognise re in la the tha United States S teel corporation an D or organization organization v hi h b embodies all aU the evil evila of the trust monopoly and community ty of ot interests idea and one on which web by reason rea on of the manner and emont of ot its capitalization and plan of opera open operation operation tion may be said to be the tile very head bead and front of the offending system that we are in heart sympathy with the Amalgamated association as hi in the thet t COntest Otest on test which t is now waging w with the United States Steel corporation for fora a Just and equitable recognition of its Ita union STRESSES WU Make Hake an Attack on Colored Col Xan M n Defy the Authorities Canal Dover 0 O Aug 2 There wa was waa wasa a slight clash dash here her today between the authorities and strikers when a train stopped at the tha sh sheet et mills milia and aDd let oft off otta offa a colored waiter walter who had been bee from Pittsburg A crowd of ot strikers at once surrounded tile the t man sn yn de demanded mended his business The mayor and an police tried to disperse the Ute crowd ad assi adit it is claimed the mayor struck one o othe of the strikers with a club hot but this be ho ben e eThe n flies The TIte colored man was sent out of town tow tonight The mayor has baa called on OR th tie Ute sheriff for help to protect the th null property and persons persona who desire to go mn into the mill USE TEE THE CAMBItA QA How Kow Strikers in Chicago o rt ra oral eral Court Order Chicago Aug ML Striking machin have bave taken takeD u the up camera a a means of ot evading Judge In junction prohibiting them from picket picketing ing the Allis Chalmers company plants piar Since ince there is nothing in the tha tion restraining the strikers from mak making ing pictures the pickets have been be transformed into amateur photographers photographers raphers and every time a anian nonunion iian nian enters or leaves the works hie bie j picture is taken Taking the pictures of these the men ei cannot be construed as intimidation said aid Business Agent Ireland tonight d Their pictures will be of advantage for circulation among the different unions union where they will wilt be marked a amen a amen men who ho travel through the country taking the positions of workmen who are on strike EFFORT Will Make ake Attempt to Sad Bait in fa j San SaD Francis San Francisco Aug ML The The Tha strike presented a few new phases today A delegation from the Ship Owners asso 0 association a elation called upon various varjo members or of the executive committee of the EIB EIn association to learn lia if It j there them was any possibility of bringing thenon the posing factions toP together Irbe detenT dele op tion received assurance that the tle em employers would be pleased ed to confer center with their men but bu would not receive com COID in which any of the leed fig ae ure If It the strikers would simply representing the tha the employers employer would try to t reach an agreement with them The ship owners then talked to hers bore of several unions and a a leading them theta to toa be that a conference can caB ba be arranged sica may lead to a settlement of tROUble b Ie between the men mer and aDd their torn ena em emIn In accordance with i or 01 P 1 a t ee r cf five t l I th 11 e employers ani r n anti and endeavor to end d ke X Mor set 1 I on j men rn fl Ty ar l laU aU der r ate ire jac j with t 1 ard arc n 7 Tile The m in J Tk n era cre re ml anI ar a of i idle 11 men me aI g the a s It vs ex expected ted that th tb y ill i thet the iI nn 1 I to l lI lI today t I id v irk on aMps tire The i i Krs d i 1 i iC C etin t nig j LiDl t v the v Fint I The Ibe wc w king kinJi I f at the Ullin Ui works R 11 I 1 hr the m mer rat ral as on nfl fl m 1 reported during 1 U ring the lb da hut f them Waa Wa of oC a aa a haia haac r |